The Gideons provide Bibles to hospitals, hotels, medical personnel, students, armed forces personnel, and others. They are made up of professional men and their wives who volunteer to speak in churches to raise funds for Bibles.

The Gideons' Purpose: "The Gideons International serves as an extended missionary arm of the church: Our sole purpose is to win men, women, boys and girls to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ through association, personal testimony, and distributing the Bible in the human traffic lanes and streams of everyday life." http://www.gideons.org/